Today the Jew finds himself trapped between the accusations of the left and the right, with no safe place to take refuge.
On the one hand, you hear the right accusing Jews of being too liberal, promoting community at the expense of individual autonomy. On the other hand, the left condemns the Jewish state for being “cruel” and promoting its own needs at the expense of the Palestinians. The weight of history, the burden of being a messenger of moral values that now seem to be under attack, is exhausting.
None of this is new, and there is some truth to it. The Jewish people are the messengers who have carried Jewish values and ethics to the world, promoting both the rights of the individual and the importance of the community.
The right resents Jews for being the ones who, through the Torah, introduced moral restraints to the world: boundaries that temper raw autonomy and unchecked power. The left, on the other hand, sees Jews as hyper-dependent, as the embodiment of the very autonomy and self-determination they believe led to inequality and oppression. It’s a painful paradox: Jews are blamed for promoting both “selfishness” and selflessness, for “controlling” too much and for being too closed-minded, for caring both too much and too little.
Judaism speaks of values that both the left and the right consider sacred.
Instead of seeing the Jewish people as the problem, what if we recognized that Jewish tradition offers a plan for healing? The Torah is not about shaming masculinity or femininity, autonomy or community. It is about balance.
The Torah speaks of values that both the left and the right hold sacred. “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) is one of the central commandments of the Torah, which emphasizes kindness, compassion, and the moral duty to care for the vulnerable – values that resonate deeply with the political left.
The Torah also insists on justice: “You shall not pervert the judgment of a foreigner or an orphan, nor take a widow’s pledge as security” (Deuteronomy 24:17). The prophets cry out against economic oppression, corruption, and the abuse of power; timeless calls for social justice.
At the same time, the Torah advocates personal responsibility, autonomy, and the consequences of our choices. “I have set before you life and death, good and evil; choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19). This verse is the essence of free will, of personal responsibility, of the idea that our choices shape our destiny – values that resonate deeply with the political right. The Torah teaches that people must be held accountable for their actions, that they are responsible for their behavior.
These values are not contradictions. They are not meant to be at war with each other. They are meant to be in balance, like the archetypal father and mother, the masculine and the feminine. The father's energy of structure, discipline, and individual responsibility must be held together with the mother's energy of compassion, care, and collective attention. When one is elevated while the other is reduced, the world falls into chaos. When we pit them against each other, we create suffering.
This internal conflict between autonomy and connection is what creates suffering, both within individuals and in societies. This is what we are seeing in the current political divide. Both the right and the left are expressing real needs: autonomy, strength, and individualism on one side; empathy, support, and belonging on the other. The problem arises when these needs are not heard, when they are dismissed or demonized. Instead of attacking, we need to hear what these needs are really saying and work to balance them in a way that promotes health, harmony, and understanding.
The world must promote a culture that honors both autonomy and community and not promote hate.
Karla Gaona
With information from agencies
The extreme left and the extreme right are polar opposites that have points of contact in the political fundamentalism of their ideologies, or not infrequently they also agree in supporting the use of violence to achieve their political objectives, while the Jews represent democracy, the same as the Masons, even though they are the fathers of the nation in countries like the United States and in all Latin American countries, or France and England are considered the two great international Masonic centers. Despite all this, the Masons are accused of practically the same anti-Semitic nonsense: kidnappings, rapes and murders of children, worship of the Devil, or, what the communists agree on most with the fascists and neo-Nazis, is the power that is also attributed to the Masons to take over the world, through banks or financial control, the media, pharmaceuticals, etc. etc. etc. Apart from the already-much nonsense mentioned above, the extreme left and the fascists and neo-Nazis agree on what could be called their religion. Apart from the traditional enemy of fundamentalist Christianity, which is Judaism, the most disturbed of both sides profess nihilism, usually atheists, with the common “Prophet” being the famous philosopher Nietzsche, still very much in force despite being singled out since he was reinterpreted by the Nazis of Hitler’s Germany. With or without reinterpretations, for the nihilists Judaism, like Christianity and the other great monotheistic religions, is the enemy to beat because it is a religion that instills values such as compassion, values contrary to the nihilistic ideal.
The German Nazis during a first stage swindled by instilling being good Christians, especially to eliminate a good number of atheist or secular left-wing political rivals and to discriminate against Jews, or some of the main Nazi criminals were Catholics and some, like Goebbels and Himmler, admired the sect of the, in those years, very cavemen and ultra-Catholic Spanish Jesuits, to shortly after, already with the Nazis settled in power, adopt their new invented religion so peculiar or in no way orthodox customs for Christian canons, at least among the Nazi elites their religion was a hodgepodge of occult beliefs and superstitions, along with parts of other current religions plus disappeared religions, in turn mixing all the above with the nihilism, supposedly atheist, of the philosopher Nietzsche. In Nietzsche's most famous book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, he brings Zoroaster or Zarathustra back to planet Earth, which now, as the philosopher's alter ego, tries to correct the huge mistake of "cutting the roll" as Jews and Christians do, or also Muslims, contrary to, for example, the very licentious life of the warriors of their ideal worlds, such as that of archaic Greece or that of the most pederasts, when the Greeks were very homosexual and pederasts, in an early Greek era they did not know how to read or write of their own free will to isolate themselves from their enemies, they mainly dedicated themselves to drinking wine and fighting each other. During the golden age of Classical Greece, golden in terms of culture and philosophers who are still widely studied today, or on many occasions their writings are still valid today, it is especially from Aristotle onwards that philosophy is considered similar to the great monotheistic religions such as Judaism and Christianity, in contrast to the previous "crazy life" of, for example, Plato, because of the part of his philosophy of "Platonic love" and all those things that are done by putting part of the mind blank.
For example, in one of the passages from Nietzsche's bible, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," based on the Persian prophet Zarathustra or Zoroaster, whom Nietzsche brings back as his alter ego, Nietzsche or the other Prophet said: "I see many soldiers. Many warriors, that's what I would like to see! "Uniform" is what they wear. I hope it is not uniformity that hides! You must be one of those whose eyes constantly seek an enemy, their enemy. And in some, hatred is discovered at first sight. You must seek your enemy, you must wage your war, and wage it through your thoughts. And if your thoughts fail, your honesty must declare victory for it. You must love peace as a means to new wars, and a short peace is better than a long one. I do not advise you work, but struggle. I do not advise you peace, but victory. Let your work be a struggle, let your peace be a victory! Only when you have a bow and arrow can you be silent or at rest. Otherwise, you only talk and argue. Let your peace be a victory! How can you say that a good cause sanctifies even a war? I tell you: a good war sanctifies every cause! War and courage have done more splendid things than love of neighbor. Not your piety, but your courage has so far saved the perishing shipwrecked.”
Israel's identity-based resistance has been its hallmark in history, overcoming the threats of empires and overcoming every attempt at international exclusion. Anti-Semitism will NEVER triumph.